Sumu wood in the quadrangle welcomes spring

Professor Chen, Professor Hao and their team ultimately failed to break into the house.

Instead, they visited the door sealed with animal skins and then climbed out of the well one after another.

The two old professors looked unhappy, they were just angry and had no place to vent.

Su Mu doesn't care about that.

He and Anliman were eating dumplings and just now they shared a pork elbow in Tianfuhao sauce. Not to mention the pork elbow itself, even the crystal jelly was incomparably delicious.

Old man Anliman's beard was standing up from eating so much.

Having lost the opportunity to explore the ancient tomb and study the culture of the Western Regions, both Professor Chen and Professor Hao became somewhat bored.

Being in a low mood, I naturally lost the mood to continue "traveling around" here.

I packed my bag hastily and filled up all the water equipment before setting off.

Su Mu just watched quietly.

"In fact, if we hadn't insisted on digging up the ant nest last time, we wouldn't have lost half of our drinking water and a third of our water storage equipment..."

Fatty Wang sighed.

With his loud voice, it was really difficult for him to speak so softly.

Shirley Yang followed Professor Chen silently, and the two seemed to be talking about something.

Perhaps he calmed his mind and focused on the next journey.

Shirley Yang took out her notebook and flipped through two pages.

"Uncle Chen, the notes do say that if you continue walking along the Zidu Underground River and pass a stone tomb, you will see the Zaklama Mountain..."

Not long after.

Chu Jian and Satipeng climbed back on the camel and the scientific expedition team set off again.

We stopped and walked along the way, and nothing major happened.

until--

ah! ~

Ye Shuxin’s scream came from behind the sand dunes.

"It's bad. Something happened."

Fatty Wang and others quickly dropped their shovels and ran behind the sand dunes.

It was an evening time.

Since early morning, there has been sandstorms all the way, and they are getting stronger and stronger.

By evening, everyone decided to set up camp.

In order to prevent the tents and supplies from being blown away by the wind during the rest period, everyone dug holes and piled up sand barriers in the windward direction.

Hu Bayi is the most suitable person to lead the team to do this job.

When leading troops in battle, he also dug a lot of trenches.

Ye Shuxin and Shirley Yang went to the bathroom. Not long after they went around the sand dunes, they heard Ye Shuxin's cry for help.

quicksand!

Ye Shuxin was halfway trapped in the quicksand pit. Shirley Yang was holding onto Ye Shuxin's wrist with all her might. The two of them were in a strange balance with the quicksand pit.

Su Mu reacted faster than Fatty Wang and was the first to offer a helping hand.

He calmly pulled Ye Shuxin out of the sand and helped her up.

He then took advantage of the situation to pull up Shirley Yang and told them to quickly leave this dangerous place.

Shirley Yang was pinched on the palm of her hand by Su Mu, and she frowned and gave Su Mu a cold look.

Ye Shuxin originally came here to urinate, but she missed a step and nearly fell into the quicksand and died. It’s hard to imagine how she felt.

So, wetting your pants is human nature.

Shirley Yang was going to accompany Ye Shuxin to the tent to change into tight pants...

"Brother Su, are you okay?"

Hu Bayi ran over and saw Su Mu staring at the quicksand pit, so he asked subconsciously.

"It doesn't feel right. If it was a real quicksand pit, Shirley Yang would have been dragged down with Xiaoye, not to mention holding her back..."

"what?"

Hu Bayi was so anxious that he didn't react.

But after Su Mu reminded him, he immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Could it be that this isn't quicksand?"

"How can there be a pit if it's not quicksand?"

The fat man asked.

"Look what this is."

Su Mu threw a stone in his hand to Hu Bayi.

"Stone?"

Hu Bayi frowned slightly and took another closer look: "This was... caused by a bomb."

"It should be a military bomb, most likely from the Soviet Union."

The fat man came over and stared at the stone in Hu Bayi's hand carefully, but couldn't see anything.

"Brother Su, you can even tell the type of bomb, just from this piece of stone?"

Suddenly a stone tomb that had been blown open was discovered.

Professor Chen and Professor Hao Aiguo were revived with full health.

He shouted, "Comrade Xiao Hu, Comrade Xiao Wang, let's dig it up and go down to take a look. Since it was blown open, doesn't it mean that someone robbed the tomb before us? We need to go down and see if there is anything worth saving..."

This time, Su Mu didn't stop him.

The rescue excavation used here is quite standard.

Maybe there are selfish motives, but at least it is not as far-fetched as the previous tomb under the water source.

The cave was dug.

Everyone went down to the cemetery.

This is a simple stone tomb, and judging by the many coffins placed inside, it is most likely a family burial complex.

It’s just that many of the coffin lids had been pried open.

Thrown aside recklessly.

Inside the coffin, there was no burial objects, not even the corpse; it was completely empty.

Professor Chen and Professor Hao looked regretful.

Constantly cursing the other party for wasting God's gifts and being punished by God.

It is true that you don't feel the pain unless the knife cuts yourself.

You only lick it when the liquid flows from your nose into your mouth, but it's too late.

"Professor Chen, there is another dried corpse here."

At the innermost part of the tomb, there was indeed a coffin with its lid half closed and a dried corpse inside.

"This is a female mummy. We can infer that this is indeed a family burial complex..."

Everyone gathered around to watch.

"Old Hu, these tomb robbers must be so poor that they even steal corpses..."

The fat man didn't understand and asked in confusion.

"They steal mummies to sell them internationally."

Professor Hao Aiguo made an indignant accusation.

He was completely unaware that he was actually no different.

Some people steal corpses for money and sell them internationally for money, while others do it for fame and willfully pry open coffins and move them away for research without the consent of the corpse itself...

Looking back, he despised his colleagues for being greedy.

But they don’t know that those who love money are at least honest, but those who pursue fame under the banner of research are actually more hypocritical.

Those who seek fame and reputation.

For example, digging an emperor’s tomb.

Professor Chen then began to explain the classification of mummies and their collection value.

Wang Kaixuan seemed to understand it, but in the end he concluded that it was worth a lot of money.

Professor Hao Aiguo was furious: "Comrade Xiao Wang, it's not worth a lot of money, it's a priceless treasure!"

The fat man, who was silenced, lost interest in listening to the lecture. He looked around and saw Su Mu jumping out of the cave, so he followed him out.

"Brother Su, can you tell when this thing exploded? Why didn't those people even want this pack of explosives?"

The fat man was carrying a large travel bag containing several bundles of Soviet military explosives.

"Maybe they couldn't carry the corpse, so they abandoned some of the explosives. After all, explosives are not as valuable as a corpse."

The fat man nodded: "That's true."

If he encountered this kind of problem, he would probably make the same choice.

It is enough to prepare some explosives. If you make some space to put one more mummy, you can make a lot more money.

That money could buy dozens of times more explosives.

Everyone can do the math on this.

I met Shirley Yang and Ye Shuxin head-on.

The two girls were also rushing towards the cave entrance, wanting to go down and take a look.

Su Mu didn't stop him.

When the two women stood side by side, he basically didn't communicate much with them.

His attentiveness and directness were always shown when we were one-on-one.

Perhaps this can be considered as the tacit understanding between Su Mu, Shirley Yang and Ye Shuxin.

Unexpectedly, Shirley Yang and Ye Shuxin were the last to go down for the visit, but they came back early.

Hu Bayi also came back with them.

Intellectuals will continue to study and try rescue research...

Su Mu "summoned" three servings of barbecue without hesitation.

Half a plate of sliced ​​Quanjude roast duck, with duck meat stuck to each puff pastry, and the other half is pancakes.

Su Mu, Fatty, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and Ye Shuxin, together with old man Anliman who had never gone downstairs, the six of them really satisfied their cravings.

One full meal is definitely not enough.

But it is more than enough to satisfy your craving.

After eating roast duck and pancakes, Shirley Yang started to cook vegetable porridge.

It can supplement nutrition and water.

Anliman and Fatty were also baking naan while cooking porridge.

This thing can be eaten by humans and can also be fed to camels, so we brought a lot of it.

Only when Su Mu scooped a bowl of porridge for the second time did Professor Chen and his colleagues return to the camp with great satisfaction.

Chu Jian and Satipeng began to use their lunch boxes to fill up the porridge and break off naan to eat.

No polite words at all.

They are completely different from the polite people they used to be.

Su Mu took a deep look at Chu Jian who was eating with voracious mouthfuls of food, and shook his head slightly.

The fat man didn't show any expression. He was also biting the naan.

Chu Jian took the naan that belonged to old man Anliman, but the old man just looked up at him and put a new one down.

Professor Chen and Professor Hao went straight to Hu Bayi with great concern.

The fat man was right next to Hu Bayi and stood up with him.

"Comrade Xiao Hu, we think we must speed up our next journey..."

Professor Chen and others meant that everyone needed to unite as one to catch up with the group of tomb robbers who destroyed the ancient tombs and stop them from continuing to destroy the precious underground cultural relics.

The heart is good, but...

Have you considered everyone's safety?

"Professor Chen, have you ever thought that if the other party can even abandon part of the bomb, will they have guns?"

Su Mu asked from a distance.

"How many people are there on the other side? How many guns and ammunition are there? If we catch up with them, is it possible to engage in a fight? Will we win with just a shotgun and a pistol, or will the other side win with more guns, ammunition and people? What about the safety of our team?"

Su Mu's series of questions made Professor Chen and Professor Hao subconsciously turn their heads to look at each other again.

Tsk~nerd!

If the scientific expedition team had performed their respective duties, there wouldn't have been so many messy problems along the way.

When someone calls him professor, he thinks he is a big shot who has the final say, and recklessly squanders everyone's safety...

As the saying goes, laymen guide experts.

Professor Chen is just a scholar. He has acted on his own in the desert many times, provoked army ants, changed his mind at the last minute, and was half-hearted about the Jingjue Ancient City...

No one is more experienced in desert walking than Anliman.

Sumu is clearly the most professional when it comes to security issues.

The team leader was Hu Bayi, but Hu Bayi turned from a team leader into a brick of socialism who helped Professor Chen and his team fill the holes.

No wonder there is an old saying that goes, "A scholar who rebels will never succeed in his lifetime."

I'm not talking nonsense.

"Mr. Su, we don't mind sacrificing our lives to protect the country's important historical relics and monuments."

Hao Aiguo said with passion and generosity.

"Yeah, okay, I admire you."

Su Mu clapped his hands, then asked lightly, "Excuse me, if you caught up with him and shot him dead, would he stop robbing the tomb? Did you use your life to persuade him?"

What a joke.

I just hate these idiots who seem willing to sacrifice their lives but actually have an IQ of less than 8.

"Fatty, give the gun to Professor Hao and let him chase those tomb robbers first..."

"Okay. Professor Hao, here you go."

The fat man stretched out his hand and handed the gun to Professor Hao.

How can a man with glasses handle a gun?

Moreover, he was just arguing with Su Mu on impulse. He would not dare to chase the tomb robbers first.

Even if he instigated the large force to catch up with the enemy, he would still rely on Su Mu, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to PK with the enemy.

Subconsciously, they just think of themselves as conductors who do nothing more than talk.

They definitely can’t be the ones to fight with real swords and guns.

Even if it was Shirley Yang, it couldn't be them.

They are rare intellectuals, professors.

"Comrade Xiao Hu, we didn't think this through. You are the team leader, we are just giving you some suggestions. We will still follow your arrangements."

Professor Chen spoke in a loving and harmonious tone, pulling Professor Hao to the campfire.

They are hungry too and need to eat.

All the passion and impulse were extinguished by Su Mu's questions.

No matter how unwilling you are to accept it, you have to face reality.

The prestige of these great professors is also being eroded bit by bit, imperceptibly.

If they continued to make such a reckless noise, sooner or later Su Mu would pull them down from looking up to kneeling down, and rub their faces under his feet.

When the time comes, Su Mu will definitely not show any mercy.

He would also say coldly and sarcastically: You deserve it.

Perhaps Hu Bayi listened to the suggestions of Professor Chen and Professor Hao, and the time of departure the next day and the speed of travel on the road were obviously much faster.

Su Mu's body swayed with the hump.

He knew that after going to bed last night, Chu Jian called Hu Bayi to Professor Chen's tent and had a long secret talk.

It doesn't matter.

Su Mu knew the plot.

Those tomb robbers were also heading for the ancient city of Jingjue.

But they couldn't get there and would be killed by the black snakes on the way.

What Su Mu is considering now is whether or not to rescue Hao Aiguo?

This guy looks extremely annoying.

But when it comes to archaeological knowledge, he can indeed be considered an expert scholar. His knowledge of the Western Region culture inherited from Chen Jiuren is also quite rich and can be considered authoritative.

But...

This guy has been changed inside and out by Professor Chen.

Judging from his words and actions, he may not necessarily not be a destructive threat in the future.

How to do it?

This is a rather tricky question.

If you want to move forward and catch up with the person in front of you, in addition to speeding up, you also need to reduce the rest period.

People spend most of their time sitting on camels, so the energy they consume and the amount of water they drink will increase accordingly.

Material consumption will also increase.

Water reserves, in particular, were once again under tremendous pressure.

no way.

The daily water consumption of the people was reduced accordingly.

Even vegetable soup is no longer available.

Su Mu no longer summoned out fresh food.

Well, no longer summoning openly.

He would still secretly feed Shirley Yang and Ye Shuxin when he was on duty.

Of course they are fed separately.

Feed Ye Shuxin in the first half of the night and Shirley Yang in the second half.

Because Ye Shuxin did not participate in the night watch, but Shirley Yang participated in the night watch because of her profession.

Most of the time it's late at night.

Because the gay men are arranged in the first half of the night, the risk factor becomes lower as the second half of the night approaches dawn.

This is based on the unique climate of the desert.

Please don't bother me if you are a nitpicker. Thank you.

In the afternoon of the third day.

In the desert, there is no grass to be seen anywhere.

Starting from the evening of the day before yesterday, Anliman and Hu Bayi began to dig sand along the grass roots. They dug several meters deep and used moisture and plastic sheets to replenish water.

Although it is little, it is better than nothing.

But today, there is no dead grass to be seen, and the last source of water has been lost.

The gang of tomb robbers that were pursuing them had not yet been seen, and their group of people were about to be dragged down and die from lack of water.

What an intellectual, the result of giving orders recklessly.

"With less rest, the camels are more often exposed to the wind and sun, and the consumption of supplies and stored water will naturally increase. Now, let alone chasing others, even if we really encounter them, our group has no weapons and no physical strength. We will be wiped out if we encounter them. How did this situation come about and who caused it? I believe everyone knows it well."

Su Mu said leisurely.

"Whoever proposes to kill the camel will be the one to carry the supplies on the camel. If we can't get out of the desert, we can't blame others..."

Hao Aiguo winked at Chu Jian and suggested killing the camel again.

Su Mu shut Chu Jian's mouth with a cold word.